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by johan_larson 2767 days ago
> At least the people doing the stupid tests are checking for stuff that is relevant to them instead of wasting time with pedantic aspects of a programming language or tech stack.

I've done a lot of interviews, and many of the questions have been very generic, with nothing whatsoever to do with the job I was interviewing for. I've reversed a lot of linked lists in my time, and I was once asked to solve FizzBuzz.